News

After a long process of development, 1.11.2 is FINALLY HERE!
We reworked the plugins ENTIRELY and converted them all from Python to Java and implemented a HUGE permission overhaul. We updated plugins to become more accessible and user-friendly and have effectively boosted the user experience by 1000%. Many staff members worked VERY HARD to make the server compatible with 1.11.2, so please thank them for all of their hard work!!!

With this update, the SV and TSV worlds will be reset, but DON'T WORRY! The old worlds will be available for download at [bleh]. Now you can enjoy updated terrain and structure generation, and ALL of the new survival-based changes and additions that have arised within the last few Minecraft updates. You will be able to get dragon heads and totems of undying, explore the new and expanded End, and have fun once again in our new and improved survival worlds!

Also, Staff has decided to change the behavior of alternate accounts. An alt will have the same rank as a player's main, but will not be able to have plots of its own. This is to prevent players from being able to get more plots just by buying another Minecraft account. You can get more plots by asking staff - but only do this if your other plots are really really full.

Everything from potion-tipped arrows and elytras to (Pyjama) llamas and Evokers will make your time on this server much more enjoyable. With observers and shulker boxes you can make new, updated, and better redstone builds! We hope to continue to help you have the best possible experience on Redstoner.

Here is a list of some changes to plugins included in the update:
-Chat alias now supports regex!
-/cgt is automatically disabled when you leave a chatgroup!
-Alias now works with chatgroups, adminchat, and PMs!
-The shift bypass on damnspam has been fixed!
-lagchunks is now entiry async!
-Loginsecurity is much faster!
-Tab will fix itself when a player is promoted/demoted!
-Mentios higher up on a player's list will be prioritized over lower ones!example:
If your mentio list looks like this:

-> NumberOne

-> NumberTwo

NumberOne will always be highlighted, NumberTwo will only be highlighted when NumberOne isn’t present. Also, that’s us. We’re number one.

A quick note: blockplacemods, friends, imbusy, calc, serversigns, reports, and signalstrength have not been implemented into the update yet, but will be soon!

Happy crafting!

woot

Edit by Viper:
Guys, I think something was a bit overlooked in this news post. @Pepich1851 worked tirelessly to get this update rolled out. He did 99% of the work completely on his own, taking his own free time to do so. This was no easy task, as all of our previous Python modules had to finish being converted to Java, as well as updated to work on 1.11. This update would have never came anywhere near as soon as it did were it not for Pepe, so I think we all need to give him a few words of thanks for his dedication to Redstoner and commitment to you guys.

< Stef >

SmashDoesMC was promoted to MIT! Wish him luck on his path to full mod!

< / Stef >

< Tusted >

The players who received a trusted promotion in January (ish) are:

Skrileton

Vanilla_Sheep

< / Tusted >

< 1.11 >

Not that much happened this month on the server directly, but staff has been working hard on the 1.11 update. It should be rolling out in the next few days! From observers to elytras to countless other features, you'll be able to enjoy Redstoner to its fullest potential once again!

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Sterf

@bobmandude9889 was promoted to dev, and he's done some work already :P

@Evanis_ was demoted for inactivity

@Pepich1851 was promoted to admin, and is also a staff lead now (\o/)

@RedSheepMC is now a full mod (\o/)

@Tatl_Tael is now a moderator in training, wish him luck on getting full mod!

and last but not least @Redempt has retired from the dev position, but is still going to stay a mod

FitMC "raids"

As you may or may not have noticed, we got "raided" by FitMC a couple of times, if you want to know more, check out this news post.

Redstoner's custom java plugins

We've done some work on our custom plugins, also called modules, you can find them on our github here, if you want to use them, you also need the loader, which you can find here. If you'd like to help out, the developer staff position is still open!

There's a (somewhat) popular YouTube streamer who (ab)uses his large number of stream viewers to raid servers, hoping to crash the servers due to the sudden bulk of players joining.

User @Ghost_Rock_ (now banned) suggested to crash redstoner.com:

The streamer accepted it and on 01:45 (CEST) went to our server, shortly after followed by hundreds of his viewers.

Here's a graph that shows the amount of players joining and leaving (mostly kicks) per 10 seconds:

The streamer claimed there were more than 1000 players online which was not quite true. During that time span we had 454 new users and 1528 logins by 472 distinct users, meaning a maximum of 472 (+ previously logged in users) were online at any given time.

When all the players joined, we didn't immediately know what's happening. We had previously seen this many players joining from someone botting us with large amounts of alt accounts, but all from the same IP address. We saw some 600 concurrent connections, all coming from different IP addresses but no unusual amount of traffic coming from any IP, indicating they were probably 'real' players rather than bots trying to DDoS the server.

Chat was completely filled with dozens of welcome messages per second, combined with all sorts of repeated cursing. We noticed they were saying things like "FitMC invasion" shortly after and figured where they're coming from. After few minutes Doomblah kicked all players, which didn't help all that much as they all just rejoined shortly after (this is the second, smaller spike in the graph)

Redempt came in to help and after a couple minutes disabled chat in the Spawn world (they were all just jumping around and spamming there) just before Doomblah turned on the whitelist (01:56:17, when player joins drop to zero). Eventually the streamer got disconnected, thinking the server crashed but it didn't. You can actually see the server online in the streamer's server list after he disconnected. He then moved on to another server.

Trivia

The whole thing barely lasted 15 minutes

The server did not crash

Obviously network, CPU, and RAM usage were higher than usual but it was nowhere near the limits on our quite powerful machine.

It is analogous to a group of people crowding the entry door or gate to a shop or businessMC server, and not letting legitimate parties enter into the shop or businessMC server, disrupting normal operations

This kind of 'attack' is similar to 4chan's Habbo raids, except they weren't able to close the pool ;)

Below is the recorded live stream of the event in case you want to see what happened. I don't recommend watching the whole video as it's just the same thing all the time and the streamer repeating "fock yea its gunne cresh".

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@Flying_Machinez stepped down from his moderator position because he didn't have enough time, (we cri) We hope to see you back soon :P

@ReachTehComunity was demoted for inactivity

@minenash was promoted to moderator in training, wish him good luck on his way to demotioncough promotion!

LOL requests removed & re-added

LOL requests were temporarily disabled this month, because staff thought they were shit. We hope that that discouraged at least some of you to not post shitty lol requests.

Token bug fixed

So @SmashDoesMC found a bug when trying to register his alt on the forums and accidentally ran the /gettoken command on his main account. What happened next is that he couldn't re-run that command from his alt. If you wanna know more, look here the almighty @jomo told me that pretty much everything should be explained there. Once again thanks Smash for reporting the bug to us :P

Stafferz

@Pepich1851 retired from his moderator position (I cri), but has decided to stay a developer!

@mpolder has decided to step down from his developer position, due to not having enough time to do his job.

@O456 was demoted to trusted, due to his inactivity.

On the other hand, @RedSheepMC was promoted to mod in training, wish him good luck on getting demoted *cough* getting full mod!

Switching to Java

The admins and the dev team have made the decision to switch to Java, as it is much more compatible with the new spigot releases than PyPluginLoader, any new developers are welcome!

Minecraft 1.10

Honestly, an update to 1.10 has not been worked on for over a month. A lot of players wish to stay on 1.8 and there's little reason to update. Once we think the time is there and decide to put some more time into it, you'll be notified. Expect the update to be paired with replacing PlotMe with Parcels. We don't intend to reset the creative world as well though.

Feature Requests

No, we did not forget about the feature requests, but we are quite busy, so hang in tight, we'll deliver when we can! :P And it would be nice if someone *looks at @3daniel* could stop necroposting already in the feature requests xD